The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Prestwich, & Rainhill : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 2nd of January 1856 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1856
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Prestwich, & Rainhill : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 2nd of January 1856 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    7/136 (page 9)
    chapel has been attended during the year by as many of the patients as could be comfortably seated, without a single instance of unquietness or disturbance having occurred. The devout demeanor and hearty joining in the peoples’ part of our liturgy, has been not unfrequently remarked by visitors who have joined us in worship. That with respect to ouf present chapel accommodation for the patients, I am bold to express my decided conviction (not hastily impressed upon my mind, but growing day by day) that it is utterly inadequate to the accommodation of the patients. The chapel was opened in 1842, and intended to seat 270 persons. Not more than 216 can be seated with ease and comfort. In 1842 there were upwards of 100 patients less than we have now. The build¬ ings have been enlarged greatly since then : the chapel remains the same. Many, especially amongst the women, have to be kept back, or can only be allowed to come at irregular inter¬ vals of time, who would come if there was room.” With respect to the weekly rate charged to parishes for the mainte¬ nance and care of patients, your Committee regrets to state that in consequence of the high price of provisions, no reduction could be made from the eight shillings and twopence as fixed at the commencement of the year. At the same time your Committee is not without hope that this weekly charge may shortly be reduced to seven shillings and seven pence. The cemetery for the township of Lancaster being now completed and consecrated, your Committee was advised by the medical officers to close the burial ground attached to the Asylum. Your Committee concurred in the propriety of this advice, and all interments for the B